WHAT WERE THE FIRST CARS

AND WHAT WERE THEY LIKE

Evan Moore

EARLY VEHICLES

STEAM POWERED CUGNOT In 1769 the very first self-propelled road

vehicle was a military tractor invented by a French engineer and mechanic named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot.

Cugnot used a steam engine to power his vehicle. The vehicle traveled at a speed of 21-12 mph on three wheels.

The vehicle had to stop every ten to fifteen minutes to build up speed.

STEAM POWERED CUGNOT PICTURE

BORDINO STEAM CARRIAGE

The Borodino steam carriage looked like a carriage off of Cinderella but with a big engine on the back of it.

It also takes a long time to get ready when you first get in because it has to gather up steam.

BORODINO STEAM CARRIAGE

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE The person who made the engine was

named Belgian Etienne Lenoir. An Internal Combustion Engine is an engine that can take gas and burn it.

A Combustion engine was also important because you didn’t have to wait for the steam to build up all you had to do was turn the car on and drive.

The person who invented it,his name was Etienne Lenoir a frenchmen.

CARL BENZ AND GOTLIEB DIAMLER Carl Benz and Gotlieb Daimler in 1890

approved that the Combustion engine was good enough for the public.

The two men also sold the first car in Germany in 1885.

HENRY FORD’S MODEL T Henry Ford built the first car in America. The first car Henry Ford built was the

Model A. The Model T was the first car to be built

on the assembly line. It was also Henry Ford’s second car.

HENRY FORD’S MODEL T

WHAT THE FIRST CARS LOOKED LIKE

HORSELESS CARRIAGE Early vehicles were called horseless

carriages. They looked like horse carriages but had

an engine on them. The word car originated from horseless

carriages. Car is short for carriage.

HORSELESS CARRIAGE The first cars couldn’t be trusted

because they would break down a lot. Early cars also couldn’t climb hills

because they didn’t have gears. You need gears because it gives the car

more power to go up the hill. It also makes the car spin it’s wheels

faster for more power.

HAND MADE The first cars were hand made. The workers had to make every part of

the car by hand and they had to put every part on the car by hand.

The people who made the cars had make them how the people who were going to buy wanted it.

The price of the cars were more than houses.

Only the rich people could buy them because of the price.

ASSEMBLY LINE Henry Ford made the first assembly line. In 1913 Henry Ford made the first

assembly line. The assembly line made the cars be

built faster. At first it took 12 hours to build a car but

Henry Ford made it shorter then it only took 93 minutes.

ASSEMBLY LINEVideo Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf8d4NE8XPw&feature=related

AFTER HORSELESS CARRIAGE

TIRES Tires are a big factor for cars. They are big factors because for cars

because they need them for grip. The grip is so they won’t slip on the road

and get into an accident. At first tires were just hard rubber then

the people who owned the tire companies changed the tires to air filled tires.

MICHELIN TIRES

THE FIRST RACE The first race was held in 1895 the

Michelin brothers tires were new made of air.

During the race the people had 22 flats in a race.

SPOKES Early cars had wooden lines in the

middle called spokes. The spokes are for the tire. The spokes held the tire in place so it

wouldn’t fall off.

STEERING Cars use to have a stick called a

steering tiller instead of a steering wheel.

BRAKES In the early cars there were brakes that

didn’t work. The people had to pull the brakes really

hard for it to do anything.

ACCESSORIES Back in the first cars they didn’t have

accessories like heat, seat warmers, gps, speakers, radios, wind shields, and wind shield wipers.